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286 -> 386 upgrade, memory management Questions

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From: Scott Johnson
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:30
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Hello all,

	Just a few quick quesitons here on what may be advisable for me to do.
I recently upgraded my 286 to a 386SX-25 using a Kingston SX Now! board.
I have 2M RAM.  Also, I have Stacker 2.0 and Windows 3.0 installed.  I have
re-installed and configured Windows so that it recognizes the 386 and used its
recommendations for SMARTDRV as a starting default. (I think it was like max of
768 min of 256 or so).  Anyway, since I started with the 286, I didn't leave
any uncompressed (unstacked) space for a swapfile.  Also, I've never had to
load EMM386.EXE before.

1)  I don't use Windows a lot (mostly for paint brush and a few Windows games),
    but in general does the swapfile really help things.  i.e. should I bother
    to shrink my stacked drive, grow the uncompressed part and let windows
    know about it, or just forget it.

2)  Any general recommendations about using EMM386.EXE and how to start it up
    (options, et al) would be much appreciated for my particular configuration.
    (Or even if it is worth using with only 2M).

E-mail responses are preferred due to the volume in this group.  Thanks in
advance!

-Scott
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Subject: 286 -> 386 upgrade, memory management Questions
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